The original post reporting the Western Kingbird at Fernald Nature Preserve was made to the Birding in Cincinnati website (http://cincinnatibirds.com/goodbird/sighting.php). The entire post is reproduced below. The date is given as Sept. 12, but this is an apparent error, as the following post by Jay Stenger dated Sept. 6 refers to it. The post is found far down the list surrounded by Sept. 6 posts, so I'm guessing the correct date of the sighting is likely Sept 5/6.

None of the more recent posts mention the bird. Paul Wharton doesn't have an email listed in the website's directory.

Paul Gardner
Columbus, OH


Date: Friday, September 12, 2008 [An error]
Location: Fernald Nature Preserve
Reporter: Paul Wharton
Other Birders:

I was hoping for some migrant songbirds, but that didn't happen. It was very slow from that perspective, but the field birds made up for it. the highlight was an adult WESTERN KINGBIRD seen at close range in the company of 5 Eastern Kingbirds. It was seen on a deer exclusion fence. I don't know how chasable this bird will be, but to get to the area, come in the Willey Rd. entrance and before you get to the big pumping station, there is a roped off road on the left with a dumpster along the side of the road. Walk down this road until you get to the second small blue pump house. The Kingbird was in the area to the right of the pumphouse. A pair of Sedge Wrens were also seen and heard in the field behind the visitor's center. That is also where the Bobolinks , Dickcissels, and Savannah sparrows were seen.

Trip List: Canada Goose 60, Wood Duck 9, Mallard 25, Blue-winged Teal 15, Pied-billed Grebe 4, Great Blue Heron 2, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk 3, American Kestrel 2, Semipalmated Plover 6, Killdeer 10, Solitary Sandpiper 1, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs 3, Least Sandpiper 1, Mourning Dove 125, Chimney Swift 6, Belted Kingfisher 1, Red-bellied Woodpecker 2, Downy Woodpecker 1, Northern Flicker 2, Eastern Wood-Pewee 3, Eastern Phoebe 8, Western Kingbird 1, Eastern Kingbird 10, Blue Jay 20, American Crow 15, Horned Lark 20, Tree Swallow 40, Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3, Bank Swallow 5, Cliff Swallow 2, Barn Swallow 2, Carolina Chickadee 12, Tufted Titmouse 2, White-breasted Nuthatch 1, Carolina Wren 4, House Wren 6, Sedge Wren 2, American Robin 12, Gray Catbird 3, Northern Mockingbird 2, Brown Thrasher 1, European Starling 150, Cedar Waxwing 5, Tennessee Warbler 3, Common Yellowthroat 6, Eastern Towhee 5, Chipping Sparrow 4, Field Sparrow 30,
 Savannah Sparrow 8, Grasshopper Sparrow 1, Song Sparrow 25, Northern Cardinal 8, Blue Grosbeak 2, Indigo Bunting 35, Dickcissel 20, Bobolink 35, Red-winged Blackbird 15, Common Grackle 12, Brown-headed Cowbird 5, American Goldfinch 40

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